Apple on Monday announced that the App Store has eclipsed 40 billion downloads since its inception—with nearly 20 billion of those downloads coming in 2012. By Macworld’s back-of-the-envelope calculations, that’s close to 800,000,000,000 individual unhappy birds alone.

Among the other numbers Apple crowed over in its announcement: There are more than 500 million active iTunes accounts in the App Store, and Apple saw more than 2 billion app downloads in the month of December alone. Developers have built more than 775,000 apps, Apple says, earning more than $7 billion in payouts.

Apple stresses that the 40 billion total downloads is really as impressive as it sounds; the company says that those numbers do not include re-downloads or app updates.

Lex uses a MacBook Pro, an iPhone 5, an iPad mini, a Kindle 3, a TiVo HD, and a treadmill desk, and loves them all. His latest book, a children's book parody for adults, is called "The Kid in the Crib." Lex lives in New Jersey with his wife and three young kids.